date | venue | time | details |
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September 7th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) | Performance by Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park. Admission: €12 (€6). [Details…] [Poster (PDF)…] |
October 12th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) | Stet Lab returns! Admission: €10 (€5). [Details…] |
November 10th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) | Featuring Filario Farinoppo: Dario Fariello (saxophones, viola, electronics and little instruments), Filippo Giuffrè (guitar and electronics) and Antonio D’Intino (bass, electronics and little instruments). Admission: €10 (€5). [Details…] |
2009/2010 (TBC) | Venue TBC | TBC | Performance by Paul Dunmall (bagpipes) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… Interested promoters and venues, please get in touch! |
May 12th 2010 (TBC) | Blackrock Castle Observatory Cork, Ireland |
TBC | Debut performance by io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Bruce Coates (saxophones), Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) and Han-earl Park (guitar). We are seeking further funding and performance opportunities. Interested bodies, please get in touch! |
2010 (TBC) | Venue TBC | TBC | Performance by Han-earl Park (guitar) and Mark Sanders (drums), Franziska Schroeder (saxophones). Details to follow… Interested promoters and venues, please get in touch! |
performances: Kato-O’Looney-Park
On Monday, September 7th 2009, at 9:00 pm (doors open at 8:45pm): an improvised music event with Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park (guitar) at The Roundy (Castle Street, Cork, Ireland). Admission is €12 (€6 concessions) at the door.
![Kato-O’Looney-Park 09-07-09 poster poster (click to download PDF…)](http://www.busterandfriends.com/_buster_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/09-07-09-212x300.png)
See the performance diary for up-to-date info.
about the performers
Kato Hideki (Kato: family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born composer / bassist / multi-instrumentalist, who lives in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide and Uemura Masahiro; OMNI with Nakamura Toshimaru and Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo piece ‘Turbulent Zone’ for electric bass with prime number tuning; ‘Tremolo of Joy’ for his band with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney and Calvin Weston. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei, Akamatsu Masayuki and Ursula Scherrer. As a bassist, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Michael Schumacher, John Zorn and among many others. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery.
Katie O’Looney was born in Killarney, County Kerry, and raised in NY State. She received a degree in art from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. She first took up the drums in 1969, and performed, recorded and toured in the USA, Japan and throughout Europe with various groups, and as a soloist, since the early 1980’s. She has played with Elliott Sharp’s Carbon, Details at Eleven, Bite Like a Kitty, Better than Death, Steppin Razor, Zar, Raeo, No Safety and Dustbreeders. She has also improvised tours with Tenko, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, solos with triggered drums and electronics with a 16 mm film of Rose Lowder, and sound for Qui Pro Quo by Rose Lowder. Katie has worked with various dancers, performance artists and theatre projects with sound and lighting design. She is a painter, and a specialist decorative painter, and has worked on a number of restoration projects. In 2002 she released a solo CD, Roundtrip.
Based in Cork, the Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park works from / within / around the traditions of idiom-agnostic, experimental improvised musics, sometimes engineering theater, sometimes inventing ritual. He is involved in ongoing collaborations with Bruce Coates, and with Franziska Schroeder, fifteen year long associations with Alex Fiennes and Murray Campbell, and has performed with Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, George E. Lewis, J. D. Parran, Paul Dunmall, Pauline Oliveros, Mark Sanders, Chick Lyall, Jan Langedijk, Stu Ritchie, Koen Nutters, Pedro Rebelo, Elspeth Murray, Mark Trayle and Hannes Raffaseder. He is also the constructor of io 0.0.1 beta, an interactive musical artifact, and cofounder of the Church of Sonology.
performance diary 07-01-09
date | venue | time | details |
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September 7th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) | Performance by Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park. Admission: €12 (€6). [Details…] [Poster (PDF)…] |
October 12th 2009 (TBC) | The Roundy (TBC) Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (TBC) | Stet Lab returns! Details to follow… |
2009/2010 (TBC) | Venue TBC | TBC | Performance by Paul Dunmall (bagpipes) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… Interested promoters and venues, please get in touch! |
Postponed! |
Blackrock Castle Observatory Cork, Ireland |
TBC | Debut performance by io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Bruce Coates (saxophones), Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) and Han-earl Park (guitar). We are seeking further funding and performance opportunities. Interested bodies, please get in touch! |
postponed: io 0.0.1 beta++ at Blackrock Castle Observatory
The performance at Blackrock Castle Observatory by io 0.0.1 beta++ will not take place as scheduled in February 2010. The event would have featured Bruce Coates, Franziska Schroeder and Han-earl Park, plus John Godfrey.
We are still looking to put this on in 2010, and we are seeking further funding and performance opportunities. Interested bodies, please get in touch!
performance diary 06-20-09
date | venue | time | details |
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September 2009 (TBC) | Venue TBC Cork, Ireland |
TBC | Performance by Kato Hideki (bass), Katie O’Looney (drums) and Han-earl Park. Details to follow… Interested promoters and venues, please get in touch! |
October 2009 (TBC) | Venue TBC Cork, Ireland |
TBC | Stet Lab returns! Details to follow… |
2009/2010 (TBC) | Venue TBC | TBC | Performance by Paul Dunmall (bagpipes) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… Interested promoters and venues, please get in touch! |
February 10th 2010 (TBC) | Blackrock Castle Observatory Cork, Ireland |
TBC | Debut performance by io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Bruce Coates (saxophones), Franziska Schroeder (saxophones) and Han-earl Park (guitar). Details to follow… |
Sonorities and TWO Thousand + NINE
On May 16th 2009 I performed as part of the closing concert of Sonorities 2009 at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. The performance was with Chris Corrigan, Manuela Meier, Pauline Oliveros, Gascia Ouzounian, Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schroeder, Justin Yang, plus Chris Chafe and Doug Van Nort. [Details…]
On the same day I presented a paper ‘io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?’ at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium. [More…]
My trip to Belfast was made possible with the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
performance diary 05-28-09
date | venue | time | details |
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June 8th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) |
Final Stet Lab before the summer break (we’ll be back in October) with Juniper Hill (voice and little instruments) and Han-earl Park (guitar); Piaras Hoban (laptop) and Veronica Tadman (voice) with Francis Heery (viola) and Áine Mangaoang (violin); and Síofra Fitzgerald (flute) and Kevin Terry (guitar). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] |
io 0.0.1 beta at TWO Thousand + NINE
On May 16th 2009: I’ll be presenting a paper ‘io 0.0.1 beta: ironic tale? sci-fi parody? nostalgic relic?’ at the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Belfast, N. Ireland. [Read the abstract…]
performance diary 05-07-09
date | venue | time | details |
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May 11th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) |
Stet Lab Featuring Bruce Coates (saxophones) and Jonny Marks (voice), with Han-earl Park (guitar) and Owen Sutton (drums). Plus The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics) and James O’Gorman (guitar). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] |
May 16th 2009 | Sonic Arts Research Center Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland |
2:30pm | Not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium. I may also be performing in the evening, but that’ll likely be a last-minute call. Stay tuned. |
June 8th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) |
Final Stet Lab before the summer break (we’ll be back in October). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] |
Ten Questions from the Cork Independent
From the local free tabloid, the Cork Independent. My first (last?) fluff piece…
![Ten Questions with Han-earl Park: Q: Who are you and what do you do? A: I’m a guitarist, improviser, constructor of musical artefacts, student, sometimes teacher, by-necessity club-runner, reluctant grant application writer, and a lapsed score-maker; a cyborgist, latter-day feminist-socialist, anti-colonialist. What I do is real-time, interactive social musicking. Q: What is the most valuable thing you own? A: The Wolfcraft TS 800 trolley. Allows me to get from gig to gig with my amp and guitar, navigating public transport and uneven paving, while keeping my spine intact. Q: If you could choose only one music CD to ever listen to again, what would it be and why? A: It’s not exactly a single CD, but Anthony Braxton’s 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006. I haven’t heard it yet, but there’s, by all accounts, a rich source of musical (and perhaps not so musical) interactions and tactics. No doubt it would keep me occupied for years. Q: If you could choose only three movies to watch ever again, what would they be? A: Movies that purport to be about one thing, but are about something else (if at all): Audition, Ghost Dog and Inland Empire. You’d go nuts after a while though… Q: You can go back in time and prevent a great catastrophe. Which one would you prevent? A: I wouldn’t presume to have the expertise to rectify an already difficult situation. Hanging chads notwithstanding, I believe that things could easily be worse then they are. Q: The major newspaper headlines for tomorrow will be about you. What would you want them to say? A: Tabloid headline, “Insidious Cult Mission Costs Tax Payers”, where the ‘Insidious Cult’ in question is the Church of Sonology. Q: If you could live anywhere in the world where would you choose and why? A: A city with a rich and odd-ball diversity of musicians, artists, audiences and alternative (and not so alternative) cultural spaces, with a cultural mission isn’t largely defined by provincialism, where performers get paid a fee, and arts funding isn’t locked into a handful of organisations. Oh, and where you can get good coffee. (If you’ve been around, you know there aren’t many places that fit that description.) Q: If you could trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? A: Defining ‘celebrity’ broadly, Pierre Boulez (John Cage might be a close second choice). I’d take the opportunity to apologise for his crimes to musicality. Q: What is the most personally embarrassing thing you can imagine? A: Actually answering that question in a newspaper. Q: Where would you like to you see yourself in five years? A: Performing with my betters and learning from my elders. Performing in one of Matana Roberts’ ensembles, or sitting-in with Tony Oxley would fit that bill. From the Cork Independent March 26th 2009](http://www.busterandfriends.com/_buster_wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/cork-indy-03-26-09-262x300.jpg)
How many members of the (semi-fictional) trans-national tribe of latter-day improvising musicians can say they’ve done a fluff piece, huh? (Not counting the blindfold tests.) Braxton? Crispell? Parker? Ha! I don’t think so….
The newspaper piece was by Graham Lynch, with a photo by John Hough.
performance diary 03-31-09
date | venue | time | details |
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April 14th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) |
Stet Lab featuring Katie O’Looney (drums and percussion), plus OPKA (Owen Sutton (drums), Paul Dowling (bass guitar), and Kevin Terry and Andrea Bonino (guitars)). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] |
May 11th 2009 | The Roundy Castle Street Cork, Ireland |
9:00pm (doors: 8:45pm) |
Stet Lab featuring Bruce Coates, plus The Real-Time Company (for the Ad-Hoc Association) of… Paul Dowling (bass guitar), Vicky Langan (electronics) and James O’Gorman (guitar). Admission: €10/5. [Details…] |
May 16th 2009 | Sonic Arts Research Center Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland |
2:30pm (TBC) | Not exactly a music performance, but a presentation by Han-earl Park on io 0.0.1 beta as part of the TWO Thousand + NINE symposium. I may also be performing in the evening, but that’ll likely be a last-minute call. Stay tuned. |
performances: Park-Schroeder
On Thursday, March 26th 2009, at 6:00 pm: Glucksman Unplugged presents improvised music by Cork-based guitarist-constructor Han-earl Park and Belfast-based saxophonist-theorist Franziska Schroeder at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery. Admission is free.
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